Gottfried Helnwein | PRESS | International Press | ALBUM COVERS THAT NEVER WEREMarilyn Manson

01. September 2003
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum
Cleveland
Helnwein, Manson
HELNWEIN'S MANSON-COVER IN THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME
ALBUM COVERS THAT NEVER WERE.
Putting Holes into Happiness,
Kneel down humble men and become the height of our children. Let your heart crawl into your knee and realize that all knowledge lives through imagination. This is the nursery business, always get a photocopy. Our cultures may continue to disintegrate but we just rebuild with abusement parks, filming the process and replaying it as situation comedy. We wear ribbons, hold hands, celebrate and concentrate on camps that train our kindergartens to shout out "star-spangled" banter.
We will medicate the lunacy of "degenerate" art with heavy doses of old-fashioned (original recipe) family virtues. "Let's make sure all of these offensive forms of entertainment are shown publicly, and burned immediately as a warning to us all!"
In the meantime, try to stay conscious. We are sitting in the EMERGENCY ROOM waiting for the doctor, a newly elected aesthetician, to come and pronounce his diagnosis. The grotesque, malignant cancer that is our expressions and our views is no longer the disease. We are being told that the sounds and images of art are now the symptoms of the creator. We as the artists, are now considered unhealthy and incurable.
Let me remind you that the deformed scar of one man, is "love's pretty dimple" to me. The generation that lived through WWII accepted the concept of "total violence" as a solution to the world's problems. The mathematics of creative suffering and the milk of human violence are the formulas that our grandparents bottled and passed down to our parents.
These are the "traditional" values that have built "protective," moral walls around our children's world. And it is, indeed, a small world after all.
MM


		26. June 2003 Rolling Stone New York ALBUM COVERS THAT NEVER WERE Gottfried Helnwein The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland challenged renowned artists to make imaginary album covers for their favorite musicians. The exhibit, on display at the Rock Hall through the fall, includes cover art for everyone from Dylan to Tupac, the Kinks to Foo Fighters. Austrian multimedia artist Gottfried Helnwein worked with Manson to create this piece. "You can have many Interpretations of the relationship between Manson and the Child", says Helnwein. "I think the contrast is nice."


		Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Museum, Gottfried Helnwein Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Museum, Gottfried Helnwein


		Putting Holes into Happiness 01. September 2003 The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum Cleveland Helnwein, Manson HELNWEIN'S MANSON-COVER IN THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME ALBUM COVERS THAT NEVER WERE. Putting Holes into Happiness, Kneel down humble men and become the height of our children. Let your heart crawl into your knee and realize that all knowledge lives through imagination. This is the nursery business, always get a photocopy. Our cultures may continue to disintegrate but we just rebuild with abusement parks, filming the process and replaying it as situation comedy. We wear ribbons, hold hands, celebrate and concentrate on camps that train our kindergartens to shout out "star-spangled" banter. We will medicate the lunacy of "degenerate" art with heavy doses of old-fashioned (original recipe) family virtues. "Let's make sure all of these offensive forms of entertainment are shown publicly, and burned immediately as a warning to us all!" In the meantime, try to stay conscious. We are sitting in the EMERGENCY ROOM waiting for the doctor, a newly elected aesthetician, to come and pronounce his diagnosis. The grotesque, malignant cancer that is our expressions and our views is no longer the disease. We are being told that the sounds and images of art are now the symptoms of the creator. We as the artists, are now considered unhealthy and incurable. Let me remind you that the deformed scar of one man, is "love's pretty dimple" to me. The generation that lived through WWII accepted the concept of "total violence" as a solution to the world's problems. The mathematics of creative suffering and the milk of human violence are the formulas that our grandparents bottled and passed down to our parents. These are the "traditional" values that have built "protective," moral walls around our children's world. And it is, indeed, a small world after all. MM HELNWEIN'S MANSON-COVER IN THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME ALBUM COVERS THAT NEVER WERE.


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